"One reason we were successful is the model was available everywhere from day one - it didn't matter what country you were in, or whether you were a developer or a consumer, you had it on the same day,"
"And then culturally relevant prompts went viral everywhere, like the popular figurine trend, which started in Thailand, or the saree trend in India."
"So at 2:30 a.m., one of the PMs messaged me saying we needed to submit it, and I said, 'OK, how about something funny like 'Nano Banana'?' And they're like, 'Yeah, sure. That's completely nonsensical,'"
"Some of my friends call me Naina Banana, and others call me Nano because I'm short and I like computers, she said. So I just smushed my two nicknames together. And it fit because it was a Flash model."
Nano Banana is an AI image-generation model whose codename originated from Product Manager Naina Raisinghani combining her nicknames 'Naina Banana' and 'Nano.' The codename was chosen last-minute during submission when Raisinghani suggested something funny at 2:30 a.m. The model reached users worldwide from day one, available equally to developers and consumers, which contributed to its rapid adoption. Culturally relevant prompts went viral globally, including a figurine trend from Thailand and a saree trend in India. The name echoed past Google practices of playful, food-related codenames and fit the model's Flash designation.
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